Anticipation ~ Spring 2010 « Documenting our Landscape 
Not to make light of Descartes' dualistic insight I might be tempted to say, "I see therefore I exist!" But that would be disingenuous, so I won't go there. Learning to see is developing the craft of transforming plain sight into a gaze wh...
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Battlefield Trees at The Hermitage ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
Making photographs, especially those made as self-assignment works, always is a statement of deep commitment to one’s subject. These photographs are made to be interrogated, to be examined, cross-examined, questioned. As a photographer, I ask viewers...
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Directions, Franklin, Tennessee ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
Learning to see the ordinary, to not overstate or understate, to select a frame from a wide array of possible frames that re-presents that which was but is no longer retrievable, is the essential foundation of photography. In the end, learning to see...
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Near Desert View Grand Canyon ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
Hanging just above the trees that protect a gift shop near Desert View by the Grand Canyon the nearly full moon sparkled in the sky. I stopped for a second, set up my tripod, framed the image and snapped off three bracketed exposures that would later...
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The Other Side at The Hermitage ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
There are two great mistakes made by those first entering the field of photography. The first is to overrate the value of one’s equipment while the second is the tendency to be satisfied by a one and done approach to shooting. Both are costly, one in...
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Fence Line at The Hermitage ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
I made this photograph outside of Nashville while there for a funeral of a relative. It at moments like these that one realizes how small one’s world really is; how narrow one’s vision, even a practiced vision, truly is. One can never see beyond one...
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Late Afternoon near El Tovar ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
There are places on this earth that I never tire of, whether I am merely looking or actively photographing. The Grand Canyon is one of those places. The richness of colors layered upon colors, the play of light and shadow across the rocks, gorges, bu...
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Wupatki Citadel Ruin ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
Kavanagh’s quip is not only demeaning to policemen (as well as any others who work for a living) but it debases art. Shakespeare wrote, not for the nobility, rather, he wrote for the common folk. Rembrandt painted portraits for his patrons and not to...
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New Mexico Highway ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
An old proverb reminds us that wherever you go, there you are. There is no escape from the presence of the self. Often this bit of folk wisdom is shared when one is contemplating escape from a place because of an internal turmoil that is overwhelming...
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Salinas Pueblo Missions Ruins at Quarai No. 2 ~ Winter 2010 « Documenting our Landscape
I make photographs because the making of images helps me understand my place in the universe. Making photographs as art is a unique way of thinking about space, time, place, light, and so much more. The fact that I make images available to others is ...
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